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• Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.From the entry symbiosis
• Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.From the entry pollinate
• In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.From the entry obligate
• As if girls have nothing to do but behave like honey bees to suck their nectar.2014, Sneha Mehta, Siya Seth Decides to Die. From the entry bluh
• There are many reasons why the results from melissopalynology may not be showing the nectar sources correctly.2013, Laïd Boukraâ, Honey in Traditional and Modern Medicine, page 68. From the entry melissopalynology
• Sliding glass windows opened so the hummingbirds could flit through, siphoning nectar from the cut ginger lilies.2009, Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, page 21. From the entry ginger lily
• The gigantic flower is visited also by the Andean hillstar, which comes to feed on puya nectar.2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 45. From the entry Andean hillstar
• Only the ooaa still lives in the forests of Hawaii, feeding on insects and some nectar.1985, Graham Bateman, Songbirds, page 102. From the entry ooaa
• Self-compatible plants that cannot autogamously self-pollinate highly rely on pollinators for reproduction, such nectar robbing behaviours may affect plant reproduction.2015 December 22, “Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae)”, in…. From the entry autogamously
• The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world.2010, Neil Wilson, Mark Baker, Prague, Lonely Planet, page 180. From the entry amber nectar
• All eye turned to the small jewel of a bird that was sipping nectar from an orange-flowered plant.2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 23. From the entry greenie
• But rather than slurp up pollen and nectar from flowers as most bees do, vulture bees gather meat.2004 September 6, Jeanna Bryner, “Bee got your tongue?”, in Science World, volume 61, page 21. From the entry vulture bee
• The water of Lhasa is of all lands, But nectar like chang and arak abound only in our birthland.1997, Henry Osmaston, Nawang Tsering, Recent Research on Ladakh. From the entry birthland
• From its surface, he insisted, plain food became ambrosia, water nectar, and the duffest dope would blow your mind.1996, Catherine Merriman, State of Desire, page 155. From the entry duff
• I had always been fascinated by the way the sundew attracts insects with its bright color and false promise of nectar.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 553. From the entry sundew
• Pour ginger wine nectar into soup-shaped serving bowls.1989, H. Clucas & A. Lindsey, Great tastes of Australia, Viking Penguin, page 100. From the entry soup-shaped
• A shrubby species suitable for beefarming, as it flowers profusely from November-January, and yields both pollen and nectar.1965, William Faris Blakely, A Key to the Eucalypts: With Descriptions of 522 Species and 150 Varieties, Forestry and Timber Bureau…. From the entry profusely
• Sweet corn on the cob comes to vibrant life with a caramelized glaze of smoky chipotle peppers, tangy lime juice, sea salt, and agave nectar.2012, Bo Rinaldi, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry chipotle
• The terms ‘nectar window’ and ‘fenestration’ are used interchangeably for enlarged gaps on the adaxial side of the stamen sheath or tube.2005, S. Tucker, Australian Systematic Botany, 19(3):193-210. p. 194. From the entry fenestration
• Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place.2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 22. From the entry amber nectar
• As worker bees gather nectar from flowers, tiny particles of pollen stick to their bodies and are carried back to the hive.1968 October, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, “Beekeeping for Beginners”, in Home and Garden…. From the entry honeymaker
• In these hæmatophagous females the nectar of flowers may be considered as a supplementary food which prevents starvation when blood is not available.1912, Frederick Knab, Harrison Gray Dyar, Leland Ossian Howard, The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, Carnegie…. From the entry hæmatophagous
• And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 94. From the entry schooner
• May we look to those wild places of contradiction where we are at once overwelling with the sweet nectar of hope and cracked by the driest apathy and dusty hopelessness.2020, Danielle Dulsky, Seasons of Moon and Flame, page 302. From the entry overwell
• In nature, dermestids can be found on old, dry carcasses, in bird and mammal nests, while the adults of some species visit flowers, where they feed on pollen and nectar.2010, George Hangay, Paul Zborowski, A Guide to the Beetles of Australia, CSIRO Publishing, page 133. From the entry dermestid

Meaning of nectar

1. noun The drink of the gods.
2. noun Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
3. noun The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.

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How do you use nectar in a sentence?

Nectar is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Nectaring is one of butterflies' favourite activities.”

What is a short sentence with nectar?

“Nectaring is one of butterflies' favourite activities.”

What does nectar mean?

Nectar means the drink of the gods.